Anything
is possible if one has the power to change the definition of words. Take
for example the word truth. Once upon a time truth had a concise meaning.
Merriam-Webster's dictionary (M-WD) defines truth as "the body of true
statements and propositions. Truth is the 'state of being the case.'"
In other words, it's a fact. A fact is something that actually exists,
or an actual occurrence. M-WD defines In truth as in accordance with facts.
As Ronald Reagan used to say, "Facts are stubborn things."

In our
post-modern culture a number of people have come to believe that there
are no absolute truths. All truth is relative. They proclaim, 'What's
true for you is not true for me" and "No one can know anything for sure."
For the relativist there is no universal moral truth, only what each individual
perceives as truth. We all have our own truth, so we mustn't push our
views on anyone else. Even some self-professed Christians embrace the
concept of moral relativism even though it's patently unbiblical. M-WD
defines relativism as "A theory that knowledge is relative to the limited
nature of the mind and the conditions of knowing (b) a view that ethical
truths depend on the individuals and groups holding them."

"What
is truth?" Pontius Pilot asked Jesus prior to sending Him to the cross.
Jesus chose to remain silent, but on other occasions He addressed the
truth question head-on. To the chagrin of many, Jesus stated categorically
that He is the way the TRUTH and the life and those who reject Him will
be excluded from the Kingdom of Heaven and spend eternity in hell. The
fact that Jesus Christ claimed to be God is another subject, so I'll move
on. Truthful means "telling or disposed to tell the truth." Truth defines
what a person believes in. It is not abstract, like a feeling or an idea.
Jesus said, "Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth" (John 17:17).
He was talking about Scripture. By reading it "you will know the truth,
and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32).

Ask
yourself this question, professed Christian: If there is no absolute truth
as the moral relativists holds, why did the Apostle John say, "For the
law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ"
(John 1:17).

Liberal
ideologues redefine words to help advance a religious, political, environmental,
scientific or social agenda. Never mind that to do so perverts the truth.
For them "The end justifies the means."

The
cults are infamous for perverting historically accepted biblical terms.
"Is it any wonder then," asked the late Christian apologist/polemicist
Walter Martin, "that orthodox Christians feel called upon to openly denounce
such perversions of clearly defined and historically accepted biblical
terminology, and claim that the cults have no rights—scholastically, biblically,
or linguistically—to redefine biblical terms as they do?"[1]

Oh that
more Christians would feel called upon to denounce cultists who bastardize
Christianity.

Politicians
are also infamous for twisting words into pretzels. Even a former president
of the United States did some fancy word twisting when he thought it would
get him off the hook. You may recall how Bill Clinton stunned the nation
during the Monica Lewinsky probe when he said under oath, "If the--if
he--if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not--that is one thing.
If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement....Now,
if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual
relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present
tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true."

In an
age of moral relativism there's no virtue in honesty. Dishonesty, duplicity
and deceit have become common behavior, even for those who have been elevated
to high office.

Some
unscrupulous homosexuals are as sharp as a dual blade saw when it comes
to perverting words. Radical "gay" activists know all to well that if
they're going to achieve the acceptance they yearn for, they must manipulate
words that are a stumbling block to their cause -- which is to make same-sex
sex appear as normal as, well, normal heterosexual sex.

Take
"sodomite" for example. Homosexuals have fought to prohibit thought on
the question of whether or not sodomy is normal. Try taking the position
that it's not, and you're branded a bigot, a homophobe, or you're accused
of spreading hate. Our once free press is no longer free to be critical
of homosexuals for fear the Lavender Police will come down on them. (Note
that homosexual activists go silent when the media smears a "gay" conservative
or a Christian leader.)

Before
homosexuals stripped "normal" of its original definition, it meant "occurring
naturally." Which begs the question: If a practice goes against nature,
is it normal or abnormal?

Common
sense dictates that man on man and woman on woman sex is abnormal. Quite
frankly, it's perverted. And I know this is true because I looked up "perverted"
in my trusty M-WD. Perverted is defined as "an aberrant sexual practice
or interest especially when habitual."

An honest
person will have to admit that those who have a propensity for same-sex
sex are, by definition, perverts. In their struggle to make homosexuality
mainstream, "gays" and lesbians have had to pervert the meaning of words.
To avoid hurting a homosexual person's feelings, a vast number of people
who are opposed to homosexual behavior (this includes people of faith)
have surrendered to perverts who pervert words! Is that preposterous,
or what?

Same-sex
sex is not what the Designer intended. The human body was designed for
normal heterosexual sex.

"Gays"
and lesbians contend that the cause of same-sex attraction is biological
therefore same-sex sex is normal. In his article, "What
if Homosexuality is Biological" Selwyn Duke explains their reasoning
this way:

"[I]f
such feelings are biologically induced, then homosexual behavior is neither
sinful nor a choice. Thus, the genesis of same-sex attraction has become
a locus of debate in the culture war."[2]

In order
to win the debate, "gays" and lesbians play the biological card. They
argue that homosexuality is inborn therefore it's not perverted. They
also play the tug on your heartstrings card. "It's not my fault I was
born gay," they insist. But even if homosexuality has a basis in biology
(there's no solid scientific evidence that it does) the behavior is by
definition "deviant." And how do I know that? The M-WD tells me so. Deviant
means, "deviating especially from an accepted norm." The homosexual lifestyle
does, in fact, deviate from the accepted norm. "Gays" and lesbians rationalize
their choices by claiming that since they were born that way it's normal
for them.

I call
this the "nature made me do it defense."

Selwyn
Duke makes the case that society has fallen victim to a terrible misconception
and raises this excellent point:

"Many of the same
people who tell us homosexuality is inborn also claim that sociopaths
(those without consciences and who exhibit antisocial behavior) may
be born and not made. But, if this is true, would that render it moral
for these individuals to trample the rights of others? If one is born
with homicidal instincts, would it be licit for him to commit murder?
Don't scoff, for it's precisely the same reasoning. Either morality
is dictated by biology or it isn't."[3]

The
movement to eliminate thought on homosexuality has failed, miserably.
That's because there's an issue that cannot be swept under the rug, namely,
something that's biological is not necessarily normal.

Incredible
how a small group of radical "gay" activists have found a way to manipulate
the public into thinking that morality should be dictated by biology.
Biology my Aunt Fanny!

Homosexuality
is not one of those moral dilemmas posed by new technologies, like in
vitro fertilization and embryo transplantations. In verbally inspiring
the Bible, God revealed absolute morality to mankind and made it clear
that sodomy is immoral because it degrades the body. Romans 1:24-27 clearly
states,

Therefore God gave
them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for
the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth
of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than
the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave
them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations
for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations
with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed
indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty
for their perversion."

People
shouldn't fall prey to destructive biological urges anymore than they
should fall prey to vices like pornography, prostitution, or gambling
– or other egregious sins such as lying, cheating, stealing, adultery,
sexual immorality and so on. Benjamin Franklin rightly said, "To err is
human, to repent divine, but to persist is devilish."

The
reason I bring up homosexuality is not to attack "gays" and lesbians,
as I will be accused of doing, but to show that liberals change vocabulary
and terminology to normalize aberrant behavior. One example is the fanatical
feminist fruitloops who've been pushing to change the meaning of the word
"prostitute" to "sex-worker." Or try this one on for size. Pathological
perverts whose primary sexual preference is for prepubescent kids prefer
the term "intergenerational sex" to "pedophilia."

How
pathetic.

Getting
back to the cults, Walter Martin addresses the masterful way in which
the cults redefine terms:

"If the reader
consults the Metaphysical Bible Dictionary, published by the Unity School
of Christianity, he will see the masterpiece of redefinition for himself.
For in this particular volume, Unity has redefined exhaustively many
of the cardinal terms of biblical theology, much as Mary Baker Eddy
did in her Glossary of Terms in the book Science and Health With Key
to the Scriptures. The reader will be positively amazed to find what
has happened to biblical history, the person of Adam, the concept of
human sin, spiritual depravity, and eternal judgment. One thing, however,
will emerge very clearly from this study: Unity may use the terminology
of the Bible, but by no stretch of the imagination can the redefinition
be equated with the thing itself."[4]

To put
it bluntly, cultists lie. M-WD defines liar this way: to make an untrue
statement with intent to deceive 2: to create a false or misleading impression.

Americans
have been asleep at the wheel while powerful far left ideologues work--round
the clock to create words in his or her own image. Before you know it
we'll all be echoing "One Nation Under Liberals." But in order to accomplish
their desired goal, they must first obliterate truth. Dr. Martin warned
of the dangers of perverting semantics when he said,

"The problem of
semantics has always played an important part in human affairs, for
by its use or abuse, whichever the case may be, entire churches, thrones,
and governments have been erected, sustained, or overthrown. The late
George Orwell's stirring novel 1984, in which he points out that the
redefinition of common political terms can lead to slavery when it is
allowed to pass unchallenged by a lethargic populace, is a classic illustration
of the dangers of perverted semantics. It should be of no particular
surprise to any student of world history that trick terminology is a
powerful propaganda weapon."

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The
lethargic populace seems not to realize what the sly devils have been
up to. If the populace is aware of it, they seem not to understand the
dire consequences of perverting semantics. Better come out of your stupor,
huddled masses, before it's too late.

Marsha
West is the Founder and Editor of the E-Mail Brigade News Report, an online
news report for conservative people of faith. Marsha is a freelance writer
specializing in Christian worldview. She is a regular contributor to NewsWithViews.com,
Alainsnewsletter.com, CapitolHillCoffeeHouse.com, plus her commentaries
appear in MichNews.com and bibleteacher.org.

Marsha
is also designer and webmaster of a Christian apologetics website, On
Solid Rock Resources. She is currently writing a series of children's
books for homeschoolers. Marsha and her husband reside in historic Jacksonville
Oregon.

Americans
have been asleep at the wheel while powerful far left ideologues work--round
the clock to create words in his or her own image. Before you know it
we'll all be echoing "One Nation Under Liberals."